Frank Ricci

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Ricci v. DeStefano

The man at the centre of the lawsuit was
Frank Ricci, a white firefighter who testified that he had studied for several hours a day and had paid a friend to record textbooks onto tape for him so that he could overcome his dyslexia in order to do well on the test. New Haven’s mayor, John DeStefano, was named as one of the respondents in the lawsuit. Attorneys for the city of New Haven argued...